1924 Rose Parade Program - Navy vs Washington Huskies ROSE BOWL Football Antique for Sale

1924 Rose Parade Program - Navy vs Washington Huskies ROSE BOWL Football Antique For Sale

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1924 Rose Parade Program - Navy vs Washington Huskies ROSE BOWL Football Antique:
$44.95

This beautiful, 99-year old antique 1924 Rose Parade Program includes a "Tournament of Roses Association float that depicts a charming a scene, wrought in beautiful blossoms, in which MADAME BUTTERFLY brings a huge vase of flowers with a FAIRYLIKE COMPANY of GOSSAMER WINGED ATTENDANTS reveling in California sunshine."
It also serves as a genuine piece of vintage NCAA college sports memorabilia of the 1924 Rose Bowl East -West football game entitled "Navy and Washington Battle to Tie With Score 14 to 14" as the program states: "Battling desperately before a throng of forty thousand persons the football teamsof the University of Washington and the United States Naval Academy played a tie game, 14-to-14, today at the Rose Bowl Stadium. The day and the field were ideal for the game which will go down in Tournament history as one of the best and most exciting of the series between the East and West.” It then goes on to describe the game details!
Along with vintage ads of the day, of significance in this program is an early "Drawing for Proposed Pasadena Theater" whichbecametoday's Pasadena Playhouse founded bytheater impresario GilmorBrown. Galvanizing a community largely made up of wealthy easterners, Brown raised money from over 1,000 citizens in Pasadena to purchase land at 39 S. El Molino and in 1925 the current landmarked theater opened its doors with national fanfare. Under Brown, The Pasadena Playhouse became internationally known and at one time, with a campus that took up almost a full square block, five stages, a scene shop and a college, was one of the largest theater complexes in the world. Brown tried and created concepts in Pasadena that have become theatrical norms globally, including the enormously impactful “theatre-in-the-round” staging technique. Because of Brown’s audacity in producing the entire Shakespeare canon, a feat no other theater in America could claim, the state legislature unanimously voted The Pasadena Playhouse the official state theater of California in 1937, a mere 20 years after its founding. Under Brown’s leadership, The Playhouse grew from a small troupe of players to a center for artistic innovation and activity, becoming a veritable talent funnel for the radio, television and film industry explosion that occurred in Los Angeles during the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s.

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